The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-15
TALMAGES SERMON.
The Importance Of Little Things
Ably Demonstrated

Great Results That Como About In Our
east Incidents-Ths Unknowa He
r0ss and Herolnss Of the World.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage and . largo
portion Of his congregation made their
aupual pilgrimage on the ID inst, to
Msrtha's Vineyard, Mass, and on the
Sabbath Mr.. Talmage preached to them
and thousands Of others In the great
camp-meetinR tabernacle. His text was:
Through . window. in . basket was let
down by the wall.-n Cor. H, 81
He said: Sermons ON Paul in Jail, Paul
on Mars Hill, Paul in the shipwreck, Paul
before the Sanhedrim, Paul before Felix
are plentiful. but in nv text we have
Paul in basket.
Damascus 10 city Of white and glisten-
ing architecture, sometimes called the
EYE Of the East" sometimes called ga
pearl surrounded By emeralds," at one
time distinguished f,r swords Of the best
material known Is Damascus blades, and
upholstery of richest fabrics callei dam
asks. A horseman BY the name Of Saul.
riding toward the city, had been thrown
fsom tho saddle. The horse had dropped
under flash from the sky, which at the
same time was SO bright it blind.
ed the rider for many days,
and, / think, so permanently in.
Of vision became the thorn in the flesh
Damascus to butcher Christians, but
after that hard fall from his horse he was
q changed man and preached Christ in
Ia acue till tho Cikv ali hon "a -
foundation.
The mayor gives authority for his ar
rest, and the popular cry is: kill himl
kill himr'
The city is surrounded by a high wall,
and the gates are watched by the police
lest the Cicillisn preacher escape. Many
OF the houses are built on the wall, and
their balconies projected clear over and
lowered above the gardens outside. 1t
was customary to lower baskets out Of
these balconies and pull up fruits and flow
ers from the gardens. To this day visitors
at the monastery Of Mount Sinai are lifted
and let down in baskets. Detectives
prowled around from house to house look
ing for Paul. but his friends hid him,
now in one place, now in another He is
no coward, as fifty incidents in his life
demonstrate. But he feels his work is
not done yet, and 50 he evades assassina-
ton.
SIS that preacher herel" the foaming
mob shout at one house door. us that
fanatic herer the police shout at another
house door.
Sometimes on the street incognito he
passes through a crowd of clinched fists,
and sometimes he secretes himself on the
hOuse.top. At last the Infatuated popu-
lace get on sure track Of him. They have
positive evidence that he is in the house
Of one of the Christians, the balcony Of
whose home reaches over the wall.
''Here he is Here he isr'
The vociferation, and blasphemy. and
bowling Of the pursuers are at the front
door. They break in.
Fetch out that Gospelizsr and let US
hang his head on the city gate. Where Is
heP'
Tho emergency was terrible. Provi-
dentially there was good stout basket
in the house. Paurs friends fasten rope
to the basket. Paul steps into it. The
basket is lifted to the ed ye of the balcony
on the wall, and then. while Paul holds
on to the rore with both hands, his
friends lower away, carefully and eau
tiously, slowly but surely, further down
the earth and the apostle steps out and,
afoot and alone, starts OH that famous
missionary tour, tho story Of which has
astonished earth and II ,aven. Appro.
pirate entry in Paurs diary Of travels:
Through q window, in o basket, was let
down by the wall.
Observe, first, on what a slender tenure
great results hang The ropemaker who
twisted that cord fastened to that lower
ing basket never knew how much would
depend upon the strength of it. How if
it had been broken and the apostles life
had been das he'd outl What would have
become of the Christian Church.. All
that magnificent missionary work in
Pamphllia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Mace
donna, would never have been accom-
plished. All his writings. that make up
so Indispensable and enchanting part of
the New Testament. The story Of the
resurrection would never have been so
gloriouslv told as he told it. That example
of heroic and triumphant endurance
at Philippi, in the Mediterranean Euro
clydOn, under fl Igellation and at his be-
would not have kindled the cour-
age Of 1000 martyrdOms. But that rope,
holding that basket, how much depended
on it! So, again and again, greater re-
suits have hung on what seemed slender
Did ever ship Of many thousand tons,
the sea, have such an impor tant
passenger as had once boat of leav es;
from taffrail to stern only three or four
feet, the vessel made waterproof by a coat
Of bitum IN, and floating on the Nile with
the infant law-yiver Of the Jews on board!
What if some crocodile should crunch 1t!
What if some Of the cattle wading in for
a drink should sink it, Vessels of war
sometimes carry forty guns, looking
through tho PORTFOLIOS, ready to open
battle. But that tiny craft on the Nile
seems to be armed with all the guns Of
that oombarded Sinai at the law
giving. On how fragile craft sailed,
how much of historical Importance
The parsonage at Epworth. England, is
on fire IN the night, AMI the father rushed
through the hallway for the rescue of his
Seven children are out and safe
on the ground, but one remains In the
building That one wakes,
and finding his bed on fire and the build
ing crumtling, comes to the window, and
two peasants make a ladder Of their |
bodies. one peasant standing on the
shoulders Of the other, and down the hu. |
man ladder the boy descends-John Wes-
ley.
Hyou would know how m uch depended
on the ladder Of peasants ask the millions
Of MethodIsts on both sides Of the sea.
Ask their mission stations all round the |
world. Ask their hundreds Of thousands
already assembled TO join their founder,
who would have persisted but for the liv- |
ing stairs Of peasants shoulders.
An English ship stopped Mt Pitcairn
Island, and right in the midst of surround
ing cannibalism and squalor the passen-
GERS discovered a Christian colony of